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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Boulder Creek on Bastille Day

Last Saturday I finally had the opportunity to fish Bear Creek, a place I wanted to fish since moving here but always passed on the opportunity either fishing closer to home or driving for another half hour to RMNP.

I invited Jason Klass to join me and we hit the river first thing in the morning, driving up the canyon and up to the town of Netherland. There we fished the inlet, hoping for that some rumors I have heard were true - grayling above Barker. Well, I didn't catch any, didn't see any but the brook trout were pretty eager and made up for the lack of grayling.

Jason Klass with what I think was a rainbow

Both Jason and I did ok in the in-let and then moved back downstream toward Boulder, stopping here and there pulling over, fishing and moving on downstream. The water downstream of the dam was a bit off-color and the flow was good, almost a bit too much water for this high gradient section of creek. There was quite a bit of white water and our fishing was mainly focused on the area of water adjacent to the main current (see Jason's blog post here on trout hangouts). Yes, the trout hangout there and you can get them with traditional sakasa kebaris!

yours truly with a brookie

a brown trout fond of a sakasa kebari

Boulder Creek

I guess use any means to get into the right position...

... right?

Although the morning was nice and cool, it was one of those days that had a high in the 90ies so we called it a day around noon.

I am glad I finally paid Boulder Creek a visit. I know it will not be the last one.

Tight Lines, -K

River Statistics:Weather: sunny, light breezeAir Temp: 60ies in the morning, 80ies by noon

Who....?

My home is currently London where I moved to in 2015 from Denver, Colorado, where I started fishing tenkara in 2010. I grew up in Switzerland, then spent a few years in Vienna/Austria and moved then to the New York City area where I met my wife. I learned fly fishing in 1998 in the Austrian Alps while living Vienna/Austria.